 So as a person who exists online and in the world, as someone who looks a little bit different, I am very familiar with people being uncomfortable with my presence. I'm familiar with kids being initially scared. And more recently, I'm very familiar with people requesting trigger warnings before my content because I am too disturbing to witness and it must ruin their day. I try to be very understanding with comments like this because I understand it comes from a place of ignorance. I want to help dismantle that in a compassionate way. But gosh darn it, every once in a while, the reality hits me that there are people sitting out there taking time out of their day to send me direct messages and to leave comments telling me that they have some right to exist in a world that doesn't include the sight of me. How casually cruel that is. The audacity is the word that comes to mind. It makes me sad for myself, but it also makes me sad for the hundreds of thousands of other people who are disabled who have to deal with this or working towards a better world. But gosh darn it, we are just not there yet.